Category: Migration to Cloud

Feed: Logicworks. Author: Lindsay Syhakhom; Teachers do more than just teach. They’re also asked to be social workers, a medical triage team, psychologists, and more. It also falls on teachers to record the issues of kids with specialneeds in their classrooms, often hours after such issues have occurred. This data may only then make it to parents and administrators weeks or months later, resulting in more pressure on teachers and inadequate data to appropriately address issues. In 2018, Nikody Keating launched mytaptrack to help teachers quickly and easily track the issues of kids with special needs. Rather than manually filling ... Read More

Feed: Logicworks. Author: Lindsay Syhakhom; A staggering eighty-one percent (81%) of data breaches involve stolen or weak credentials. While two-factor authentication is now a foundational part of any identity security initiative, hackers are increasingly bypassing two-factor authentication methods. Recently, a leader in identity governance and access management software came up with a new approach to help companies stay one step ahead of hackers in preventing unauthorized access. Their approach analyzes multiple factors of the authentication request so that two-factor authentication is only required if risks are detected. This process is called adaptive authentication or risk-based authentication and improves security while ... Read More

Feed: AWS Architecture Blog. We hope you’ve enjoyed reading our series on API architecture and development. We wrote about best practices for REST APIs with Amazon API Gateway and GraphQL APIs with AWS AppSync. This post will cover the top resources that all API developers should be aware of.Tech Talks, Webinars, and Twitch Live Stream The technical staff at AWS have produced a variety of digital media that cover new service launches, best practices, and customer questions. Be sure to review these videos for tips and tricks on building APIs: Happy Little APIs: This is a multi part series produced by our awesome Developer Advocate, Eric Johnson. He ... Read More

Feed: Logicworks. Author: Lindsay Syhakhom; From large financial organizations to tiny health startups, most companies have made significant investments in cloud technology. In fact, 72% of US executives say they are either using cloud based solutions or plan to do so in the future. Many of them have already migrated workloads to the cloud. Nearly 40% of companies are adopting a cloud-first strategy. What’s thedraw? Agility and scalability are frequently cited as the top reasons for cloud migration. Long gone are the days when you build an application and run it unchanged for years, and “digital transformation”, which often implies ... Read More

Feed: AWS Architecture Blog. Since August 26 was National Dog Day, we thought it might be a great time to talk about why Wag!,an on-demand dog-walking, boarding, and pet-setting service that’s available in 43 states and 100 cities, deployed blue-green (or canary) architecture for increased availability and reduced risk using Amazon ECS.Last June, Dave Bullock, Director of Engineering from Wag Labs Inc., talked with AWS Senior Solutions Architect Peter Tilsen about how the company needed to find a faster solution for updates and rollbacks than what the previously solution, AWS OpsWorks, could provide. What used to take up to 10 ... Read More

Feed: AWS Architecture Blog. Co-authored by George MaoWhen building a serverless API layer in AWS (one that provides a custom grammar for your serverless resources), your choices include Amazon API Gateway (REST) and AWS AppSync (GraphQL). We’ve discussed the differences between REST and GraphQL in our first post of this series and explored REST APIs in our second post. This post will dive deeper into GraphQL implementation with AppSync. Note that the GraphQL specification is focused on grammar and expected behavior, and is light on implementation details. Therefore, each GraphQL implementation approaches these details in a different way. While this ... Read More

Feed: Logicworks. Author: Lindsay Syhakhom; Companies are often defined by how they respond to market changes. Is it reacting to market dynamics, or is it building tools today to address tomorrow’s challenges? Numerix, the leading provider of capital markets technology, is one of the fastest growing global FinTech companies due to its ability to rapidly pivot its technology solutions to address changes in the financial services market. With over 20 offices, 700 clients, and over 100 partners across more than 26 countries, Numerix is now the global standard in derivative & structured note trading and risk management analytics and systems ... Read More

Feed: AWS Architecture Blog. A few weeks ago, we kicked off this series with a discussion on REST vs GraphQL APIs. This post will dive deeper into the things an API architect or developer should consider when building REST APIs with Amazon API Gateway.Request Rate (a.k.a. “TPS”) Request rate is the first thing you should consider when designing REST APIs. By default, API Gateway allows for up to 10,000 requests per second. You should use the built in Amazon CloudWatch metrics to review how your API is being used. The Count metric in particular can help you review the total number of API requests ... Read More

Feed: Logicworks. Author: Lindsay Syhakhom; DevOps has been a major cultural force in IT for the past ten years. But a gap remains between what companies expect to get out of DevOps and the day-to-day realities of working as a systems engineer on a IT team. Systems engineers often spend too much time putting out fires and manually building, configuring, and maintaining cloud infrastructure. A recent survey found that it takes more than a month to deliver new infrastructure for 33 percent of companies, and more than half had no access to self-service infrastructure. The result is that systems engineers burn out ... Read More